Cervantiad
My stubborn donkey
would not work at the windmill
so I named him xote
Now he's tilting with the best of them
Author notes: if you don't get the pun, ask me. If you do and groan, yep https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783923-The-Donkey
Latest Writing
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Mercury Encounter
Speedy was surprised
by the alien
having legs, not wheels
Author notes: Robot SPD-13, also known as "Speedy", was the name of the robot in Asimov's Mercury story in I,Robot https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783817-Sci-Fi-Image-Haiku-Welcome-Contest-
mt. fuji's magnificence
mount muji’s magnificence
immortalized
in hokusai’s paintings
Author notes: Hokusai painted over 100 versions of Mt. Fuji https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783832-Haiku-Mountain
Compulsion
Serial killer
Double life. Would like to quit.
Maybe just one more
Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783837-Dark-or-Regular-Haiku-Contest
Bad at Metaphors
Quarter's earnings blown
Our investors will be pissed
Shit storm is coming
Author notes: the contest title -- Storm -- and Bad at naming made me think of this https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783818-Storm
Regrets
You've had a few. Enough!
Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783831-5-words---Advice-to-someone-who-...
Back in The Day
my virtual reality treadmill
lets me recreate
walking to school in the snow
it's uphill both ways
like back in the day
Alternate Routes
You took the road less traveled?
Has it made a difference?
Hard to prove a counterfactual
More likely you just avoided a few minutes of traffic
It's no big moral victory
It's available to anyone with Wayz
Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/poem/add?item[for_contest_id]=2783528#
90 wpm
the inkwell ran dry
finally switched to laptop
can now use both hands!
Star Music
distant nebulae
show traces of aliens
playing cosmic strings
Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783741-Sci-Fi-Image-Haiku-Welcome-Contest-
Kitchen Romances
The fork liked to do it in the kitchen
But he was a perfect gentleman
He always brought flowers
the next day. Usually a rose.
Even if all he got
was some gentle spooning
Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783065-The-Fork-and-the-Rose-
Needlepoint
Who says they don't make great pets?
Sure you have to watch you don't step on him,
especially at night
Sometimes he does wake me up
with the patter of his tiny feet
But I love sending him out
He'll bring the occasional apple,
some leaves
But the mushrooms, let me tell you!
You might say I'm high on the hedgehog
Author notes: WC 61 Art by PNG Wave https://allpoetry.com/contest/2782781-Hedgehog-Prompt--------------175-Words-or-L